Shooting-gallery.



(Applicati'on led July 80, 1901.)

(No Model.)

ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. Loss, OE SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, AND JOIIN FEGGETTER BLAKE, OE NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHOOTING-GALLERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 691,643, dated January 21, 1902.

Application Iiled JulySO, 1901. Serial No. 70,296. a(No model.)

To au whom it may concern:

Be it known thatwe, WILLIAM F. LOSS, residing at Summit, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, and JOHN FEGGETTER BLAKE, residing at Manhattan borough, New York city, in the county and State of New York, citizens of the United States, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shooting-Galleries, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a shooting-gallery or amusement device adapted to act as a sort of coin-collector and which can be adapted to return coin under certain conditions; and the invention resides in the novel features of construction set forth in the following specification and claim and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure l indicates a side elevation of a shootinggallery embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a section along cc, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a pistol. Fig. 4 shows a perspective view of a pistol barrel or muzzle.

In the drawings is shown a gallery or hollow passage, such as a tube a., of cylindrical or other suitable shape. This gallery or tube can be transparent throughout its entire length, or only part so, or entirely dark or opaque except at thetarget or bulls-ieye. A convenient form of construction, which is also cheap and durable and generally satisfactory, has been to form the gallery or tube of wire or wire gauze or netting, which allows entry of light. The target ,b is suitably placed or secured in the gallery and can be fixed or stationary, if desired; but it might also be made adjustable to and from the point of iring. The bulls-eye or center of the target is shown as a perforation c for the passage of the coin or projectile when properly fired. 0n making a bulls-eye or hit the coin passes through this aperture and enters or falls into funnel or mouth d to pass by the-return-chute e into receiver f, which latter is open or accessible, so that the returned coin can be retaken by the original owner. In case of a miss the coin striking the target to one side of the center passes into the coin-retaining receptacle or locked drawer or receiver g, to be taken by the proprietor of the premises or other authorized individual.

A pistol is shown with barrel h open at top for the insertion of a disk or coin i. Toward the'lmouth part of the barrel is shown a flange or overhanging part la for covering the channel, so that when the hammer Z has been snapped forward or the ring act has been done the projectile i cannot jump up or pass out of the pistol-barrel except through the mouth. The covering-flange lo leaves the barrel or its rear open to form a coin-receiving slot or mouth. The hammer Z canbe actuated in any suitable well-known way either by a self-cooking arrangement or otherwise. A convenient way is to put the hammer at half-cock, drop the coin into the pistol, and then full-cock and fire. The pistol is adjustably mounted, so that while it can be universally moved or turned for aiming it cannot be removed or lost. Ahinge-support for the pistol is shown at m, allowing the muzzle to be swung up or down, and swivel post or support fn allows the muzzle tobe moved sidewise. The pistol may further be mounted on a sliding or movable base o, which, however, is preferably not detachable, so that the pisltol will always remain at the gallery. A coin having been put in the pistol or coin-receiving slot or opening and aim having been taken, the pistol is fired with a view of making a bulls-eye and recovering the coin. A disk or sight p can be applied to the closed or rear end of the tube to ease the aim for the bulls-eye c or to form, as it were, a second center or bulls-eye. VThe pistol as shown is adapted to fire a coin edgewise or with its edge or rim facing the target; but the device could yof course be arranged to also fire the disk or coin with a face or flat side starting toward the target.

The device can be called a safety shootinggallery, since, as shown, no explosion or cartridge is required, the coin or projectile being-propelled by the snap or spring of the hammer.

The device can be suitably applied or mounted, the drawings showing a standard or support q, which can also conveniently support the return-chute c and accessible receiver f.

The pistolbarrel is readily formed by shaping or bending a sheet of metal or piece of material as seen in Fig. i, and by having the barrel or body h open at top and the ange or cover at said top spaced from or leaving a slit at one side of the barrel a coin that should get jammed or stuck in the barrel could be forced clear by a blade or tool slipped into or run along the slit or passage between the body h and the ange or overhang 7c at the top. i

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is m 1. In combination, a tube, a base connected exterior-1y to one end thereof, a pistol suitably i mounted upon said base, a target mounted in the said tube at the opposite end to that ot' the pistol, a receptacle at the front of the target arranged below the tube and communicating therewith, a funnel mounted within l the tube at the rear of the target, a chute connected at one end to the tube and comi municating with said funnel, a receiver connected to the chute, and a standard for sup- 1 porting the said tube and free end of the chute. t In combination, a tube, a base connected i exteriorly to one end thereof, a pistol, means 3 for swivelly and pivotally connecting the pistol to the base, a target mounted in the said i tube at the opposite end t0 that of the pistol, a receptacle at the front end of the target arranged below the tube and communicating therewith, a funnel mounted Within the tube at the rear of the target, a chute connected at one end to the tube and communicating with said funnel, a receiver connected to the chute, and a standard for supporting the said tube and free end of the chute.

ln testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM F. LOSS. JOHN FEGGETTER BLAKE. Witnesses:

W. C. HAUFF,

E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

